UEFA Plans To Hold Champions League Final August 29

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By Oyinlola Awonuga (The New Diplomat’s Entertainment, Style and Sports Desk)

Europe’s football governing body, UEFA, is working on plans that would see the Champions League final end the 2019-20 season on 29 August. UEFA is scheduled to  meet on 23 April for more elaborate  discussions about how to complete the campaign which has been disrupted by coronavirus outbreak.

Sources say it is likely that a decision will emerge from the meeting with parties  agreeing  that leagues should be rounded up in good time. Such a decision is however subject to  UEFA’s approval.

But the reigning idea is to finish the season as a whole at the end of August, with all outstanding games successfully  played. That would mean the Champions League final taking place in Istanbul on 29 August, with the Europa League final in Gdansk three days earlier.UEFA

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Two scenarios that could lead to that  situation are  currently under consideration. The first is to play the quarter-finals and semi-finals as two-legged matches as normal, in July and August. The second would be for the games to be played as one-off fixtures after the end of the domestic seasons, potentially condensing the end of the competition into a week-long mini- tournament.

Four of the eight Champions League quarter-finalists are already known, with Manchester City’s high-profile encounter with Real Madrid  as one of the ties still waiting to be concluded. In the Europa League, scheduling is more complicated because all eight last-16 second-leg ties are still to be played, with two matches, involving Spanish and Italian teams, yet to play their first legs.

It would be recalled that authorities and the World Health Organisation(WHO)in an attempt to reduce the spread of the coronavirus,  sporting activities have been temporarily put on hold.

Oyinlola Awonuga
Oyinlola Awonugahttps://newdiplomatng.com
Oyinlola Awonuga is a trained journalist with skill-set and experience in content curation, content creation, and management across various digital channels . Awonuga is passionate about Entertainment, Style, Fashion and Sports as niche specialties, and she is involved in consistent engagements on various social media platforms, with steady followers online. Her works have also received appreciable recognition from Media Career Development Network, and at her spare time, she monitors developments and reports on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. She loves reading, tracking updates on Entertainment, Style and Sports, and staying abreast of global digital developments.

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